I know that 12 hours have not lapsed since my previous post, but to move the game along, here's another challenge: Next: The one coin in your...
Here's a good-sized cast bronze of the Roman Republic that should fit the bill, easily. Roman Republic, 280-276 BC Aes Grave Quadrans [ATTACH]...
Thank you. I'll add that information to the coin's label.
Here's my Bar Kochba shekel/tetradrachm, purchased many years ago from Worldwide Coins of California. Judea, No Date (134/5 AD) Shekel Bar Kochba...
The first coin has better detail, compared with the second, but the fields are rougher and there are flan flaws and splits with the first coin....
Yesterday, outside the front gate, on driveway(!), I found a package of long awaited lots from Roma Numismatics. Included was a large lot of...
So, this coin falls under the grouping of heterogeneous tetradrachms of the late 3rd century. The tetradrachms of this group were issued in...
One of the advantages, if one could call it that, of having a failing memory is the joy of rediscovering a coin that was assumed to be long gone....
That's a very nice sestertius, Donna - nicely centered and very good detail. I don't remember what my first sestertius was, but I am pretty sure...
Thank you. I'll see if I can locate a copy of this book. Here's one more coin, one that has been posted before a couple of times. I believe it...
I can't quite see it in the photo, but if there is a delta behind the ear your coin is probably Ptolemy I.
Sorry for the long delay with this reply. Here are some images of what I think are Levantine imitations of the Attica tetradrachm First, here is...
You're coin looks like it is a Bingen Pi IV owl. https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=pi-style
So, if my coin is an imitative owl (still working on that), then it would appear that other mints also recycled coins by folding the flan and...
Yes, I've noticed. Thanks for the link.
Yes, apparently this was a common practice during this period and later. Here's more information from Forvm Ancient Coins. The folded flan...
This coin arrived yesterday. It is an owl, intermediate, from the 4th century BC. This example does show the characteristics of a folded flan,...
Thank you for the comments, and it is true that the silver tetradrachms and gold coins generally were not used domestically except to finance...
You're right about the Athenian tetradrachms and Spanish 8 reales as being bullion and treated as such by merchants, most of whom were not...
I've purchased ancients from Zurqieh many times, both on eBay and VCoins. While most of my purchases have been Attica tetradrachms and generally...
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